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This evening's music started with Johnny Otis, but then I got to thinking of another Johnny, Johnny Ace, so there's some of that and a little more kind of related stuff too. Enjoy!
Willie and the Hand Jive - The Johnny Otis Show
"Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through." -- Timothy Geithner
"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
-- John Lindsay
News
Egypt's Judicial Coup: Muslim Brotherhood-Run Parliament Dissolved, Military Gains Power
Greeks Face a Momentous Decision
Euro-Crisis Used to Destroy Social Contract
GOP/Dem rhetorical convergence
In 2005, Karl Rove sparked widespread outrage by accusing liberal critics of President Bush’s Terrorism programs of sympathizing with and wanting to coddle The Terrorists:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
Yesterday, Gene Lyons, the long-time Democrat and syndicated columnist, wrote a column defending Obama’s Terrorism policies — he’s merely doing what “what any bloody-minded pragmatist would” — and denounced what he called “the feebleness of [Obama's] critics” (citing me as the left’s example). Here’s how Lyons, in the first paragraph, characterizes the position of Obama’s critics:
[A]nybody who thought Barack Obama was going to deal with terrorists by sending flowers and proposing group therapy is certainly naive enough to work for the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
So if you oppose Obama’s secret, lawless, civilian-killing militarism in numerous Muslim countries (as everyone from the ACLU to virtually the entire non-U.S. world does), then it means that you want to lavish The Terrorists with flowers and therapy: so sayeth Democratic Party loyalists. That’s lifted from Rove almost verbatim, except that Rove’s comment was more accurate and less incendiary. ... The way in which many Democratic partisans have adopted the lowliest and most repellent GOP demonizing rhetoric is almost as striking as the way in which they’ve embraced many of their defining policies.
Pilgrim nuclear plant dispute leads to lockout
A labor dispute at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth has boiled over with management locking out unionized workers and both sides accusing the other of compromising public safety.
United Kingdom proposes massive archive of citizens’ Internet activity
The U.K. Home Office has proposed a bill that would allow authorities to log the activity of nearly everything roughly 60 million people do on the Internet, according to the Associated Press.
“Communications data saves lives,” Home Secretary Theresa May said. “It is a vital tool for the police to catch criminals and to protect children. If we stand by as technology changes we will leave police officers fighting crime with one hand tied behind their backs.”
The bill would force Internet service providers to archive all major forms of online communication, such as emails, tweets and Skype calls. They would also be required to archive their users’ IP addresses, electronic hardware, and Internet history. The data would be stored for one year.
Sunlight Foundation introduces great, free activism tool - Scout
Check this baby out!
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
11 Key Things You Should Know About the Bloodshed in Syria
The Times finds the people angle on Social Security
POWER OF PROTEST: Occupations of Obama Campaign Offices in CA, MI & CO Influenced DREAM Decision
Historic first testimony of out transperson before Senate...Traditional Values Coalition responds
A Little Night Music
Johnny Otis - Harlem Nocturne
Danny Gatton - Harlem Nocturne
Johnny Otis Show - Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
Johnny Otis - Show Me The Way To Go Home
Johnny Ace ~ Cross My Heart
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones - Johnny Ace Is Dead
Paul Simon - The Late Great Johnny Ace
For further listening:
Johnny Ace - Don't You Know
Johnny Ace - Follow the Rule